I heard a rumor on the radio that Betty had been recently boosted. ¿Can any of you anti-vaxxers confirm that?
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DrakeStraw — 4 years ago(January 04, 2022 04:55 PM)
I heard a rumor on the radio that Betty had been recently boosted. ¿Can any of you anti-vaxxers confirm that?
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CrystalRaindrops — 4 years ago(January 05, 2022 01:33 AM)
CLAIM: Betty White told a news outlet she received a COVID-19 vaccine booster on Dec. 28, three days before her death, saying: “Eat healthy and get all your vaccines. I just got boosted today.”
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The quote is fabricated. White did not receive a booster that day, her agent confirmed to The Associated Press. The news article cited by social media users does not contain the bogus quote or anything about vaccines.
THE FACTS: Days after Betty White’s death at the age of 99 was confirmed on Friday, social media users are falsely claiming “The Golden Girls” star had received a COVID-19 vaccine booster on Dec. 28, using a bogus quote to suggest her death may have been related.
Posters on Twitter and Facebook shared an image containing a quote reading, “‘Eat healthy and get all your vaccines. I just got boosted today.’ - Betty White, Dec. 28th, 2021,” alongside a link to an article in Minnesota news outlet Crow River Media, titled, “Betty White: I’m lucky to still be in good health.”
One post on Twitter shared the fabricated quote with a caption that reads, “Died 3 days later! Coincidence.”
Some users also shared the booster claim without the quote. “Is it true betty white received a booster 12/28?!?” reads one Twitter post.
But the article does not include that quote, and archived versions of the story stored by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine also do not mention COVID-19 vaccine boosters. Crow River Media did not immediately return a request for comment.
The story itself is about a Dec. 28 article in People that included quotes from White given “a few weeks” before she passed away. The People article also does not mention boosters.
White’s agent, Jeff Witjas, confirmed to the AP that the quote attributed to White is entirely false.
“Betty never said this,” Witjas said in an email.
Witjas also confirmed that White did not receive a booster on Dec. 28, though he did not comment on whether she received one at all. -
ToastedCheese — 4 years ago(January 05, 2022 10:04 AM)
Yes, but these vaccines can also be attributed to many other side effects and they are getting sequestered or dismissed.
Why is a 99yr old woman with an already frail immune system getting a synthetic jab which is dubious to begin with?
My elderly mother ended up in hospital for 5weeks soon after having the second dose from a brain bleed, she was already on stroke medication which had previously been minor, and a friend of friend said his healthy 93yr old grandmother who capably lived alone, died of a stroke soon after her second dose.
I really think these things do matter.
Norman! What did you put in my tea?